Video: Shepard Fairey talks about his famous Barack Obama picture

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Street artist Shepard Fairey talks about the unexpected huge success of his collage painting of president-elect Barack Obama, which had been acquired by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery to hang alongside word-famous portraits of American presidents. He told (with a certain amount of glee) that his poster is out-selling Marie Osmond's dolls on QVC.

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